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The project plan that I saw for the corridor does call for the third track returning to service with the shifting of the tracks to the new southerly alignment. It was originally supposed to happen in October, but it isn't clear to me whether that schedule will still hold. That schedule also...

Grass is not in the cards for this section. In part because they can't due to the bridge immediately to the east, and in part because they seem to try and avoid it at the portals, probably due to how poorly it would do in such a shady area. Dan

This is not the case in this work. So long as a hard delineation can be made - say, fast fences or jersey barriers - then the construction can go on without stoppages. That delineation separates the rail corridor from the surrounding corridor, and allows for general construction rules to apply...

It's not a lot, it's 2. And those are used on 65-75 / 70-64, which have historically been heavily used trains on both of their legs, and in both directions. There is a short-term surplus in the sense that VIA can afford to put an additional car on those sets, but historically those have...

It's not that it values them more, it's that it is the reality of using their resources efficiently. Closing a subway line, even at off-peak hours, requires dozens to hundreds of buses, operators, supervisors, red vests, etc. Subways are just more efficient at moving vast numbers of people...

The average kilometer of subway cost $7mil to maintain over 10 years ago. (That number is probably closer to $10mil/km today.) The surface section will cost considerably less to maintain. There are no needs for systems to provide lighting, fire prevention, life safety, passenger elevating...

The historical GM bus rebuild was done in spite of Leary, not because of him. The cost to rent a TTC vehicle has skyrocketed far, far higher than inflation under his watch, so he's of no use to foamers, either. Dan

It's not a problem in Japan because the temperature range isn't as extreme. And all it takes is a couple of degrees to make the problem go away. The railways here do use expansion joints. For instance, most switches are not welded in, they're bolted in for specifically those reasons. But...

I'm with Paul - it's an interesting idea (and already done in limited cases with third rail, but for entirely different reasons), but I don't think that it is a particularly practical one. As far as I can figure to be effective at combating high rail temperatures, the spray would have to be...

As Paul pointed out, this has been an issue for far, far longer than just 20 years. And the problem is that there is no real solution to it. The actual problem is that our potential temperature range in this part of the world is just too great. Want to avoid slowdowns in the summer? The...

Yes. But only kinda. The speed limit through that section is 95mph. There has been an additional PSO through the curves just to the west of that level crossing of 90mph for LRC and 75mph for everything else, so any non-stop trains generally aren't running the full speed limit over the crossing...

And what do you do to deal with the 60+ foot difference in height? Or with CP's concerns about GO traffic having to cross over their tracks to get from the north side of the corridor to the south? Dan

The TTC's own memos do not mention any work necessary to the track at Spadina Station. All the work will be done on the platform and to the structure surrounding it. And yes, the overhead is being done down to College, and south of King. So no, there is no trackwork being touched at all. Dan

That is only true in some very select places, predominantly parts of Germany. In most other cities in Europe, their tram/streetcar system looks identical to what it did 50 or more years ago, just with larger vehicles. This is as opposed to the modern systems such as Paris, London, Dublin, etc...

Why would you post in a 12-year old thread with an obvious falsehood? Dan

While it's a nice rendition and will likely be used in marketing the impending electrification of the system, I would not give it too much attention as far as it being a guideline to what the actual locomotives will look like. There are far too many details missing from it, not the least of...

To a degree, this is and has been the case here too for a long, long time. Bombardier held the maintenance contract for GO Transit going back to the middle 1990s, and operating contract since 2007. And there's lots of examples elsewhere in North America where Siemens, Alstom and others have...

I don't know about the grinding, but they will absolutely have to do a LIDAR scan of the line before hand over - assuming that they haven't already done it. Dan

The Crosstown, for instance, has a number of errors on it. There is no spare track east of Don Mills, the double-crossover east of Pharmacy is actually two single crossovers, etc. The access to Greenwood Yard (the "wye") shows a crossover where the tracks pass under/over each other. There are...

The respective unions are not crazy about it, but at the same time there isn't (or wasn't) legislation preventing it like there was in Toronto. Then again, they all had mutual transfer exchange programs amongst themselves. The TTC didn't until March. Yes. I can't recall the ATU being openly...